ultimateskier: You’ve passed this point long ago, probably, but you gave yourself away SO bad here…
Love ya, though!
Everyone: her stuff is good. 🙂
I love to write also (big surprise…), and while I don’t write for the Jewish Press or anything people outside my school will really read (except by accident at their second cousin’s house, as I discovered to my astonishment when my mom’s sheitelmacher complimented me on something I wrote for the school newspaper and I was like, what?), I still think it’s a great way to put my thoughts somewhere concrete. Otherwise they tend to kind of float away in the periphery, so when I write, I’m actually thinking for real- it’s kind of just an accident that other people happen to read it afterward.
I don’t really write inspirational type stuff, but if I did, even though I’m in high school, I wouldn’t really have an issue with that. Personally, I tend to find inspiration in the weirdest things, so I know that really, there’s the inspiration and there’s the kli- if you happen to be the kli for someone else’s inspiration, kol hakavod.
And if you want to use a pen name, use a pen name, but why would there be anything at all untznius about using your name in an article?